[sdiy] MIDI isn't musical : Flame bait?

[Don Tillman]

   From: "Colin Fraser" <colin at colinfraser.com>
   Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:53:49 -0000

   If you can hear the difference between playing a digitally scanned, MIDI
   interfaced keyboard hooked up to an analogue synth via a CV convertor,
   and a switched resistor string CV keyboard doing the same, then you've
   got one superhuman sense of timing.

It's actually pretty easy; try it!  The human sense of timing really
is wickedly good.  'Has to do with millions of years of evolution for
survival -- we're also often able to duck out of the way of an
oncoming projectile pretty well.

Sometimes the most blatent giveaway is in the quirks of the particular
CV keyboard, like the duophonic feature of the ARP Odyssey.  That's
easy to spot.

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California, USA
don at till.com
http://www.till.com